2022 Sponsor Profiles

For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 84 Availability Zones (AZs) within 26 geographic regions, with announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

AWS and Intel have a 15-years-plus collaboration dedicated to developing, building, and supporting cloud services. This collaboration helps manage cost and complexity, accelerates business outcomes, and enables scaling to meet current and future computing requirements.

AWS Web Address: https://aws.amazon.com/anz-public-sector/
Street address: Level 37, 2 Park St, Sydney NSW 2000

Fujitsu’s purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. As the digital transformation partner of choice for customers in over 100 countries, our 124,000 employees work to resolve some of the greatest challenges facing humanity. Our range of services and solutions draw on five key technologies: Computing, Networks, AI, Data & Security, and Converging Technologies, which we bring together to deliver sustainability transformation. Fujitsu Limited reported consolidated revenues of US$32 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022.

https://www.fujitsu.com/au/

Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
We’re committed to advancing learning for everyone. Explore our cloud solutions, teaching tools, and affordable devices that help transform classrooms, academic institutions, research and edtech companies

VAST Data is a storage software company bringing an end to complex storage tiering and HDD usage in the enterprise. VAST consolidates all applications onto a single highly scalable all-flash storage system to meet the performance needs of the most demanding workloads in the new era of AI, while also redefining the economics of flash infrastructure to finally make it affordable enough to store all of your data on flash. VAST delivers real-time performance to all data.  Since its launch in February 2019, VAST has become the fastest selling start-up in history. VAST’s Universal Storage now powers several of the world’s leading data centric computing centers.

For more information, please visit https://vastdata.com and follow VAST Data on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Intersect Australia is a leading provider of digital research training, services, and solutions. As a not-for-profit, member-based organisation, we offer training and research support to meet the specific needs of researchers and enhance research productivity. Through a highly experienced team embedded within our member institutions, and supported by technical and operational experts, we also offer research-oriented cloud storage, compute, research data management, and research software engineering services.

Intersect’s digital research technology services to support world-class research, include:

Education and Training: practical, research-relevant, hands-on courses for researchers in data management, data analysis, digital research technologies, and programming; delivered online or onsite.

Consultancy, Advice, and Support: expert advice on building research capability through the contextual application of digital tools and technologies to research.

Research Data Management: collaborative, cost-effective, flexible, and powerful research data management solutions.

Research Computing: expert services to support cloud, cluster, or high-performance computing and the ability to host and manage research applications.

Software Engineering Services: cost-effective, research-focused web and mobile application development.

Web Address: https://intersect.org.au/
Email: enquiries@intersect.org.au
Phone: 02 8079 2500

XENON for Research Infrastructure

Researchers have been advancing their work with high performance computing, artificial intelligence and the tools of data science for decades now. XENON has been there every step of the way, providing the foundation in compute and data storage infrastructure which enables scientists to solve larger problems, faster.

XENON works closely with leading universities and research institutes to provide solutions which solve the complex compute issues required for modern research, including:

• Implementing high performance computing clusters for data analysis work across a range of disciplines including health & life sciences, genomics, weather modelling, radio astronomy, fluid dynamics and more.
• Data management solutions – including back-up, archive and data protection issues.
• Providing GPU and CPU compute power, from workstations to servers and full HPC clusters.

Services and Consulting

When universities and research institutes require additional expertise, they call on XENON. Our team delivers individual projects as well as ongoing infrastructure management services across Australia, New Zealand and SE Asia.
Individual projects have covered areas such as lifecycle planning, new cluster design, data protection and archive protocols, training in containerisation and HPC technologies. Ongoing managed services contracts are available for managing HPC clusters; performing updates, maintenance and cluster expansion; data management – backup and archive of large data sets.

XENON Cluster Stack

Making HPC clusters easy to maintain, manage, grow and expand is a key challenge for research teams. XENON has developed the XENON Cluster Stack™ to address this challenge. XENON Cluster Stack™ is a containerised framework for cluster operation and management, built on open source components in a cloud like framework that creates an agile cluster which can be better utilised by teams while also being easier to operate and manage. XENON Cluster Stack™ is available for clusters supplied by XENON, and can be retro-fit into existing clusters with XENON HPC Managed Services.

Learn more about XENON Cluster Stack™.

Success Stories

XENON has over 25 years of history in delivering solutions for researchers. From delivering the first GPU based high performance cluster in 2008, to recent clusters for environmental modelling and radio astronomy – XENON partners with researchers around Australia, New Zealand and SE Asia to deliver solutions that help researchers overcome previous limitations and solve new problems.

Read their case studies: CSIRO, CSL, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Hong Kong University, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) .

See more XENON on our website: xenon.com.au/insights/

HPC has been critical to research both in academia and in the industry. Till recently, much is still based on command line job submission and debugging. Altair’s industry-leading HPC tools let you orchestrate, visualize, optimize, and analyze your most demanding workloads, easily migrating to the cloud and eliminating I/O bottlenecks. Top500 systems and small to mid-sized computing environments alike rely on Altair to keep their infrastructure running smoothly.

The ecosystem build around Altair’s PBS – one of the most matured and established software in workload management and resource scheduling- include a web based job submission portal (Access) and monitoring tools (Control) for jobs, nodes, memory, etc. In addition I/O profiling and telemetry are also available (Mistral, Breeze). These tools also allow HPC jobs to be deployed to the cloud in a seamless manner. The cloud bursting takes this one step beyond, where jobs can run on on-premise HPC hardware and also run in the cloud when the local hardware is busy.

On HPC systems or standalone, Altair has an end-to-end suite of Data Analytics solutions. The Data Preparation software Monarch has a matured and unique PDF reports extraction technology. Research papers and reports in Scientific or Engineering fields can be extracted into tabular formats for subsequent data transformation including joins, pivots, cleansing and manipulating columns of data with ease.

Using KnowledgeStudio, researchers in ML will benefit from GUI-based ML modelling without coding. The increasing list of ML models include AutoML, DecisionTrees, Regression, Neural Networks, XGBoost, etc.
For Engineers, Medical researchers and more, both Compose (Octave’s M-code compatible) and WPS (SAS language compatible) provide coding environments for rapid prototyping in building mathematical, engineering and statistical analysis code using M-code/SAS-language/Python/R in combination.

For engineers and scientists dealing with real-time data, Panopticon has no match in the industry in being the true real-time visualisation / dashboarding platform. The Streams component allows researchers to build formulas that operate on real-time data directly from the source.

Visit our website at www.altair.com and contact gthomas@altair.com for any inquiries.

For over 180 years Springer Nature has been advancing discovery by providing the best possible service to the whole research community. We help researchers uncover new ideas, support librarians and institutions with innovations in technology and data, and provide quality publishing support to societies. We make sure all the research we publish is significant, robust and stands up to objective scrutiny, that it reaches all relevant audiences in the best possible format, and can be discovered, accessed, used, re-used and shared.
As a research publisher, Springer Nature is home to trusted brands including Springer, Nature Portfolio, BMC, Palgrave Macmillan and Scientific American. Springer Nature is also a leading educational and professional publisher, providing quality content through a range of innovative platforms, products and services. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals and resources reach millions of people. For more information please visit springernature.com and @SpringerNature.

Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet)

AARNet is Australia’s national research and education network, a critical national asset that enables Australian researchers to safely access institutional, national and international e-Infrastructure including the public Internet and software tools and resources such as scientific instruments, data storage, high performance computing, content and service providers.

AARNet provides ultra-high-speed, high-quality and resilient broadband interconnections between instruments, facilities, campuses and institutions using dedicated national and international digital infrastructure. Through partnerships with other national research and education networks (NRENs), AARNet connects the Australian research sector with the global research sector.

We also provide a range of services tailored to meet the needs of researchers and research institutions, including Globus data management, Zoom video and phone and Eduroam Wi-Fi.

Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. We partner with research groups across the sciences and humanities on range of projects and help resolve complex technical challenges to remove barriers to data sharing and discovery.

Our powerful network infrastructure, expertise and services enable Australia’s participation at the forefront of teaching, learning and research on a global scale and are fundamental to driving innovation in today’s digital economy.

www.aarnet.edu.au

WEKA delivers the industry’s first multicloud data platform for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and other next-generation workloads. The WEKA® Data Platform’s advanced architecture is optimized to solve complex data management challenges and provides consistently epic performance at scale across on-premises, edge, hybrid and multicloud environments. WEKA is accelerating innovation, research, and discovery for the world’s leading enterprises and research organizations – including eight of the Fortune 50 – and helping them to achieve first-to-market results with AI. WEKA is backed by nine world-class strategic investors, including Hitachi, HPE and NVIDIA, and operates in more than 20 countries worldwide.

For more information, visit https://weka.io or contact Joe Hassell Senior Director, WEKA APAC – joe.hassell@weka.io – +64-21-380-560